European ranking
22 / 30
No change from the previous year
Ireland: Gini coefficient
An editorial snapshot of country living conditions with trend, regional spread, and context links.
Country overview
Ireland
Current reading for Gini coefficient in a European context.
Eurostat indicator: Gini coefficient
Latest value
27.20 Index
Compared with Europe
-2.3 puntos
Ireland is 2.3 points below the European average.
EU: 29.50
Affected population
5.4M
Year: 2025
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Indicator: Gini coefficient
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At a glance
Ireland performs more favourably than the European benchmark on Gini coefficient, with a moderate gap. The trend context points to recent departure from stability. The wider topic context points to broader relative strength.
European comparison in Ireland
In Ireland, Income inequality is noticeably better than the European benchmark: 27.2 index points versus 29.5 index points in 2025, with a gap of 2.3 index points.
Recent trend
In Ireland, the medium-term pattern is broadly stable: the value moved from 27.6 in 2020 to 27.2 in 2025. The primary pattern was broadly stable, but the latest step, from 26.4 in 2024 to 27.2 in 2025, departs from that stability with a deterioration.
Reading within the topic
In Ireland, the evidence for Income & Purchasing Power leans towards relatively favourable performance compared with Europe, without a clear pressure signal dominating the picture. Recent changes among related indicators are also mixed, with improvement in some and deterioration in others.